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As told by Yerachmiel Tilles,

co-founder and first educational director of Ascent-of-Safed, originator and maintainer of this website, and managing editor of Kabbala Online. He has hundreds of published stories in many venues and in (at least) a half dozen languages. He tells them live in Tsfat (Safed) nearly every week, at his home on Friday evenings and at Ascent on Saturday nights.
To subscribe to his weekly email story, join his WhatsApp group for an additional audio story and video story,and/or to purchase any of his books, see the 3 announcements below.



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(For informtion on the hard-cover and soft-cover story collections of Y. Tilles, look to the right of the photo.
To join his WhatsApp stories group, see directly below)

The books of the
"Full Moon stories" series
by Yerachmiel Tilles

are available for purchase
in Jewish bookstores internationally,

and online on various booksellers' sites
(Google search on "Yerachmiel Michael Tilles" )

SAMPLE REVIEWS by:

Amazon Yanki Tauber Batya Medad Daniel Keren Rivkah Lambert Adler

 

 

The Ascent storyteller WHATSAPP GROUP

a different Audio, Video and Print story each Saturday night!

To Join "TillesTells", or for more about the group,

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"The Difficult Nine Days of a Chasidic Master"

During the “Nine Days” of intensified mourning for the loss of the Holy Temples in Jerusalem, Rabbi Baruch of Mezhibuzh would disappear; none of his chasidim could accompany him, see him off or know where he went.

Why This Week? TISHA B'AV [2026: Wednesday, July 22, sunset – July 23, nightfall.]

LAST week's Story

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"The Holy Ari of Safed"

The Holy Ari of Safad overflowed with Torah in every form. He also was expert in the language of trees, the language of birds, and the speech of angels, and could read faces in the manner outlined in the Zohar.

Why This Week: The fifth of the Jewish month of Menachem-Av [2026: Sat. night July 18 through Sunday, July 19 is the yahrzeit of the Ari.

NEXT week's Story

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